Creative, Colorful Chalk

As we prepared for our annual Fine Arts Festival my fourth graders had been creating some beautiful projects. This one has been a favorite. Students created a glue resist chalk drawing by first using pencils to draw their image; then applying glue directly to the drawing and coloring in the image with chalk.

Day One: Beautiful birds outlined in glue. I used Elmer’s Glue All because sometimes the school glue has too much of a liquid consistency.

Make sure you have a flat surface so the glue dries neatly.

Day 2: The students were all smiles!

They love blending and shading their tropical rainforest birds. With all the vivid colors at their disposal they went to straight to work.

Toucans!

When blending I demonstrated how to use a different finger with each new color so the colors stay bright.

These look great! I've done this before but always struggle with whether or not to spray. Spraying dulls the colors, but if I don't spray, someone will lean against the display and smear all the colors. So I wonder how others manage this. And if you don't spray, how do you send the home?

I use hair spray- very lightly. These are hanging in the hallway with no smears or smudges. All the teachers are monitoring the hallways as well for fingers to touch 🙂 I have to say the students LOVE using chalk and are very respectful of the projects. 🙂 I will be sending 18 x 24 inch portfolios home soon and everything is neatly tuck away.

I do a glue project every year because I just absolutely LOVE the results! The kids love the pastels and they always turn out amazing. Last year we did rainforest animals because the theme for the art show was the rainforest…I have to say the poisonous frogs were my favorites! (I always spray…otherwise its a bit of a mess and things get smudged.) (hair spray)

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I have been teaching elementary art for 20 years in Ohio. I love my job and watching my 750 students enjoy the process of creating. I love incorporating children's literature with art lessons, and anything to do with fun, colorful art. I am a mom to two lovable kids. I love to see fun projects and mix it up to create a new project. If you do post about a project please reference back to my blog. It is great getting comments and feedback to pass along to my students. Thanks for checking it out!
Enjoy, Laura